A bright sunny day.

View East from Aonach Mor.

Across Aonach Mor East slopes to Aonach Beag.

View West from Aonach Mor.

Sunshine and showers

Carn Mor Dearg and Ben Nevis

Aonach Mor: Coire an Lochan South side

View south from Climbers' Col on Aonach Mor.

Very poor visibility on Aonach Mor.

Aonach an Nid; north end of Aonach Mor.

Aonach an Nid NW slopes during a brighter interlude early afternoon.

Another day with sunshine and light snow showers.

View West from Aonach Mor.

A day for ski-touring on Aonach Mor.

Coire an Lochan crags across to the Climbers' Col.

Carn Mor Dearg East slopes and Ben Nevis behind.

Sunshine and snow showers.

Coire an Lochan and its lochan from the Aonach Mor plateau.

Aonach Mor summit plateau with one of several walkers out enjoying the day.

Carn Mor Dearg and Ben Nevis from Aonach Mor.

Poor visibility on Aonach Mor, again.

Aonach Mor: summit plateau.

Unlike yesterday I didn't see anyone on the hill today. Perhaps given the poor visibility and wet windy conditions this isn't that surprising.

Poor visibility on Aonach Mor.

Lower cloud moving in from the West.

The summit of Aonach Mor.

Although not on this photo there were quite a number of people enjoying a walk on Aonach Mor today.

Not much visibility on Aonach Mor

Along the top of the West Face of Aonach Mor.

Winter is back!

No snow out west. It didn't really get this far. Light dusting on the Rum Cuillin in the distance

Distant shot of the Carn Dearg Buttress on the Ben. With the North Easterly winds, this side of the Ben is pretty scoured. Note the wind transportation in the foreground.

Strong NE winds with the fresh snow has created main deposits around the tops of West aspects. The above shot shows typical accumulations. These lying on grass/bare ground.

Ben Nevis day.

Another mild and spring like day on the Ben. However, a return of colder conditions is expected next week.

The North Face as seen from the approach.

Still a fair bit of snow in Coire an Ciste and Number 5 Gully.

A team of three head up the lower section of Observatory Gully to get onto Tower Ridge. The top of observatory gully might not be the wisest place to be at the moment given the continued risk of rock and ice fall in the spring conditions.


Carn Dearg. The lowest patch of snow, at about 600 metres, is the lowest remaining snow on Ben Nevis, (and possibly in Scotland?) at the moment. It is formed from the debris of the many avalanches which come down the Castle Gullies every winter, and is evident most springs.

Conditions on Thursday and Friday

Relatively cold on the summits today with a cool plus 2 degrees - its been 10 degrees for the the last few days! Certainly not a return to winter though.

Heard a report of somebody snow boarding all the way down Easy Gully earlier in the week so there is still some sport out there for anyone with a sense of adventure.

Forecast for Friday suggests some light rain with moderate NW winds. Freezing level around 2700m with summit temperatures around 4 degrees c

Ben Nevis.

Looking onto the Orion Face, Observatory gully area. It felt more like June than March up there today.

Zooming in on the top of Observatory gully. Three keen skiers can just be seen carring their skis up. Thy are just below the rock which is almost directly above the top of Tower Scoop. There was a couple of climbers on Tower Scoop, and it you look carefully you can just pick one of them out at the bottom of the route.

Coire na Ciste, quite a substantial patch of the snow at the back of this.

The CIC hut with Carn Dearg and Number 5 Gully behind.

Aonach Mor and Aonach Beag

Coire an Lochan SE of Easy Gully

Coire an Lochan North of Easy Gully.

South end of Aonach Mor, from Aonach Beag.

Sunshine : )

Despite the sun beating down the snow on the Goose was hard and icy.

Coire an Lochan.

Alpine conditions on Ben Nevis and Carn Mor Dearg.

It was an amazing sunny day in Lochaber.

The temperature dropped below freezing at higher levels last night which meant that any snow in shady locations was hard and icy. However, on Southerly aspects it was softening in the sunshine.

Clear day.

It was a nice clear day with a dusting of fresh snow.

Looking over to Carn Mor Dearg.

Coire an Lochan.

The ice is nearly gone from the lochan in Coire an Lochan.

Cavity hoar (sometimes called crevasse hoar) forming in the edge of a crack. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost#Hoar_frost for more information on how this forms.

Looking up into No2 and No3 Gullies on Ben Nevis this morning

Fresh Snow!!!!

If you look really, really closely, you will see a VERY light dusting of fresh snow!

Not really enough to affect the avalanche hazard!

Cloudy

It was very cloudy on Aonach Mor meaning no great photo's i am afraid. I did come across this chunk of rock that has come down recently. It was the largest of eight or ten pieces spread about the snowslope (you can't see the other pieces as they are further down slope.) Rock and ice fall will continue to be a hazard in the mild conditions.

A wet morning in Coire Leis, Ben Nevis.

Allt a' Mhuilinn.

Coire Leis

Bottom of Observatory Gully and Douglas Boulder.

The rain returns

A distant picture of the Ben taken at lunch time just as the freezing level was going above the summits. It was raining!